My photo essay for today: The swamp is being drained but it's being refilled w/ equally difficult folk -- not drained of old line politics. Just new alligators. Won't be a better swamp. Still be a swamp. I'm struggling to realize that this is my America, my nation -- rude, disrespectful, misogynistic, isolationist and fear inducing. My hope -- pendulums swing back. And, in the meanwhile, protect our children please. Keep them from repeating the hate and the nastiness and bullying. Missing images (they are on Facebook) of flag and pendulum. …see more